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- ISBN
- 9780195170559
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195170555
ISBN-13
9780195170559
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43751875
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
Africana : the Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience5-Volume Set
Number of Pages
3960 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Reference, Africa / General, Black Studies (Global), Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Illustrator
Yes
Features
Revised
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
9.4 in
Item Weight
458.6 Oz
Item Length
9.7 in
Item Width
12.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-020222
Reviews
Praise for the First Edition:"Bursting with information and enhanced by contributions from its illustrious advisory board, which includes Jamaica Kincaid, Nell Irvin Painter, Cornel West and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, this book belongs on every family's reference shelf."--Publishers Weekly, "Africana will be a very useful tool, and may even set new standards and change attitudes about the African and African-American experience."--The New York Times Book Review, "The editors have admirably fulfilled the dream of African American scholar and leader W. E. B. Du Bois, who worked for much of his life to create such a monument. Highly recommended."--Library Journal, "Many other reference books of African Americans provide information on the transatlantic slave trade and some provide information on selected cultural practices and folkways that Africans infused into American culture, but Africana holds a unique place among reference works by bridging theAtlantic in numerous ways."--Booklist, "Substantially larger than the first edition, and with expanded references and indexing, this five-volume set covers a vast geographic area and encompasses the complex histories of Africans in Africa and the Americas."--Reference and Research Library Book News, "Africana will be a very useful took, and may even set new standards andchange attitudes about the African and African-American experience."--The NewYork Times Book Review, "Thoroughly revised and massively expanded, this monumental work not only serves as a replacement for its 1999 edition, but also merits a place in any academically oriented high school or college collection."--School Library Journal STARRED REVIEW"Updated and greatly expanded.... Notable for its global coverage beyond just the western perspective.... Recommended."-Booklist, Starred Review"Expansive resource.... Plentiful cross-references.... Beautiful color photos and maps.... Superb set." - Library Journal, Starred Review, "Thoroughly revised and massively expanded, this monumental work not only serves as a replacement for its 1999 edition, but also merits a place in any academically oriented high school or college collection."--School Library Journal STARRED REVIEW, Praise for the First Edition:"Bursting with information and enhanced by contributions from its illustriousadvisory board, which includes Jamaica Kincaid, Nell Irvin Painter, Cornel Westand Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, this book belongs on every family's referenceshelf."--Publishers Weekly, "Thoroughly revised and massively expanded, this monumental work not only serves as a replacement for its 1999 edition, but also merits a place in any academically oriented high school or college collection."--School Library Journal STARRED REVIEW"Updated and greatly expanded.... Notable for its global coverage beyond just the western perspective.... Recommended."-Booklist, Starred Review"Expansive resource.... Plentiful cross-references.... Beautiful color photos and maps.... Superb set." - Library Journal, Starred Review"[A] worthy effort. It greatly expands, updates, and corrects the 1999 edition.... This is an important work.... Recommended."--Choice"Thoroughly revised and massively expanded, this monumental work not only serves as a replacement for its 1999 edition, but also merits a place in any academically oriented high school or college collection."--School Library Journal STARRED REVIEW"Appiah and Gates assembled a distinguished advisory board and recruited 270 scholars to write the entries.... An important work.... Recommended."--Choice"Updated and greatly expanded....While other reference sources generally focus on either Africa or the U.S., Africana is notable for its global coverage beyond just the western perspective....Recommended for college and university libraries or any library needing to update its old edition."--Booklist STARRED REVIEW"Accompanied by beautiful color photos and maps the wide-ranging entries cover individuals, events, places, ethnic groups, organizations, movements, and countries from both the American and African continents and vary in length from a biographical paragraph to a 30-page expository on slavery and slave rebellions.... An inclusive subject bibliography, plentiful cross-references, and a subject/name index make for useful additions to this superb set.... This moreexpansive resource deals with numerous topics about people of African descent throughout the world, from African American architects to Dominican-Haitian relations."--Library Journal STARRED REVIEW"Substantially larger than the first edition, and with expanded references and indexing, this five-volume set covers a vast geographic area and encompasses the complex histories of Africans in Africa and the Americas."--Reference & Research Library Book NewsPraise for the First Edition: "Bursting with information and enhanced by contributions from its illustrious advisory board, which includes Jamaica Kincaid, Nell Irvin Painter, Cornel West and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, this book belongs on every family's reference shelf."--Publishers Weekly"Africana will be a very useful tool, and may even set new standards and change attitudes about the African and African-American experience."--The New York Times Book Review"The editors have admirably fulfilled the dream of African American scholar and leader W. E. B. Du Bois, who worked for much of his life to create such a monument. Highly recommended."--Library Journal"Many other reference books of African Americans provide information on the transatlantic slave trade and some provide information on selected cultural practices and folkways that Africans infused into American culture, but Africana holds a unique place among reference works by bridging the Atlantic in numerous ways."--Booklist, "Accompanied by beautiful color photos and maps the wide-ranging entries cover individuals, events, places, ethnic groups, organizations, movements, and countries from both the American and African continents and vary in length from a biographical paragraph to a 30-page expository on slaveryand slave rebellions.... An inclusive subject bibliography, plentiful cross-references, and a subject/name index make for useful additions to this superb set.... This more expansive resource deals with numerous topics about people of African descent throughout the world, from African Americanarchitects to Dominican-Haitian relations."--Library Journal STARRED REVIEW, "Appiah and Gates assembled a distinguished advisory board and recruited 270 scholars to write the entries.... An important work.... Recommended."--Choice, "Accompanied by beautiful color photos and maps the wide-ranging entriescover individuals, events, places, ethnic groups, organizations, movements, andcountries from both the American and African continents and vary in length froma biographical paragraph to a 30-page expository on slavery and slaverebellions.... An inclusive subject bibliography, plentiful cross-references,and a subject/name index make for useful additions to this superb set.... Thismore expansive resource deals with numerous topics about people of Africandescent throughout the world, from African American architects toDominican-Haitian relations."--Library Journal STARRED REVIEW, "[A] worthy effort. It greatly expands, updates, and corrects the 1999 edition.... This is an important work.... Recommended."--Choice, "Updated and greatly expanded....While other reference sources generally focus on either Africa or the U.S., Africana is notable for its global coverage beyond just the western perspective....Recommended for college and university libraries or any library needing to update its oldedition."--Booklist STARRED REVIEW, "Thoroughly revised and massively expanded, this monumental work not only serves as a replacement for its 1999 edition, but also merits a place in any academically oriented high school or college collection."--School Library JournalSTARRED REVIEW "Updated and greatly expanded.... Notable for its global coverage beyond just the western perspective.... Recommended."-Booklist, Starred Review "Expansive resource.... Plentiful cross-references.... Beautiful color photos and maps.... Superb set." -Library Journal, Starred Review, "Thoroughly revised and massively expanded, this monumental work not only serves as a replacement for its 1999 edition, but also merits a place in any academically oriented high school or college collection."--School Library Journal STARRED REVIEW "Updated and greatly expanded.... Notable for its global coverage beyond just the western perspective.... Recommended."-Booklist, Starred Review "Expansive resource.... Plentiful cross-references.... Beautiful color photos and maps.... Superb set." - Library Journal, Starred Review
Dewey Edition
22
Number of Volumes
5 vols.
Dewey Decimal
960/.03
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
Ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated the need for "the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica," Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., realized his vision by publishing Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience in 1999. This new, greatly expanded edition of the original work broadens the foundation provided by Africana . Including more than one million new words, Africana has been completely updated and revised. New entries on African kingdoms have been added, bibliographies now accompany most articles, and the encyclopedia's coverage of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean has been expanded, transforming the set into the most authoritative research and scholarly reference set on the African experience ever created. More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic. African American history and culture in the present-day United States receive a strong emphasis, but African American history and culture throughout the rest of the Americas and their origins in African itself have an equally strong presence. The articles that make up Africana cover subjects ranging from affirmative action to zydeco and span over four million years from the earlies-known hominids, to Sean "Diddy" Combs. With entries ranging from the African ethnic groups to members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Africana , Second Edition, conveys the history and scope of cultural expression of people of African descent with unprecedented depth., Ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated the need for "the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica," Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., realized his vision by publishing Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience in 1999. This new, greatly expanded edition of the original work broadens the foundation provided by Africana. Including more than one million new words, Africana has been completely updated and revised. New entries on African kingdoms have been added, bibliographies now accompany most articles, and the encyclopedia's coverage of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean has been expanded, transforming the set into the most authoritative research and scholarly reference set on the African experience ever created. More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic. African American history and culture in the present-day United States receive a strong emphasis, but African American history and culture throughout the rest of the Americas and their origins in African itself have an equally strong presence. The articles that make up Africana cover subjects ranging from affirmative action to zydeco and span over four million years from the earlies-known hominids, to Sean "Diddy" Combs. With entries ranging from the African ethnic groups to members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Africana, Second Edition, conveys the history and scope of cultural expression of people of African descent with unprecedented depth., Ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated the need for "the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica," Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., realized his vision by publishing Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience in 1999. This new, greatly expanded edition of the original work broadens the foundation provided by Africana. Including more than one million new words, Africana has been completely updated and revised. New entries on African kingdoms have been added, bibliographies now accompany most articles, and the encyclopedia's coverage of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean has been expanded, transforming the set into the most authoritative research and scholarly reference set on the African experience ever created. More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic. African American history and culture in the present-day United States receive a strong emphasis, but African American history and culture throughout the rest of the Americas and their origins in African istelf have an equally strong presence. The articles that make up Africana cover subjects ranging from affirmative action to zydeco and span over four million years from Lucy, our oldest-known human ancestor, to Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. With entries ranging from the African ethnic groups to members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Africana, Second Edition, conveys the history and scope of cultural expression of people of African descent with unprecedented depth., Ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated the need for "the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica," Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., realized his vision by publishing Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience in 1999. This new, greatly expanded edition of the original work broadens the foundation provided by Africana. Including more than one million new words, Africana has been completely updated and revised. New entries on African kingdoms have been added, bibliographies now accompany most articles, and the encyclopedia's coverage of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean has been expanded, transforming the set into the most authoritative research and scholarly reference set on the African experience ever created. More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic. African American history and culture in the present-day United States receive a strong emphasis, but African American history and culture throughout the rest of the Americas and their origins in African itself have an equally strong presence. The articles that make up Africana cover subjects ranging from affirmative action to zydeco and span over four million years from the earlies-known hominids , to Sean "Diddy" Combs. With entries ranging from the African ethnic groups to members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Africana, Second Edition, conveys the history and scope of cultural expression of people of African descent with unprecedented depth., Ninety years after W. E. B. Du Bois first articulated the need for 'the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica,' Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., realized his vision by publishing Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience in 1999.This new multi-volume second edition of the original work expands on the foundation set by Africana. Including more than one million new words, Africana has been completely updated and revised. New entries on African kingdoms have been added, bibliographies now accompany most articles, and the encyclopedia's coverage of the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean has been expanded, transforming the set into the most authoritative research and scholarly reference set on the African experience ever created.
LC Classification Number
DT14.A37435 2005
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